# Santa Claus: The Movie (1985 Christmas Bonus) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus.md Podcast: [Awesome Movie Year](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341) Published: 2025-12-24T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://awesomemovieyear.com/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bdd30859-fe1f-4184-8664-cbc29757d5f2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus Duration seconds: 3757 ## Resource This special Christmas preview of our upcoming 1985 season features holiday favorite Santa Claus: The Movie . Directed by Jeannot Szwarc from a screenplay by David Newman and starring David Huddleston, Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, Judy Cornwell, Christian L. Fitzpatrick and Carrie Kei Heim, Santa Claus: The Movie was the final major release from Superman franchise producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/santa-claus-the-movie-1985 ), Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/27/movies/film-santa-claus-with-moore-and-lithgow.html ), and Dolores Barclay of the Associated Press. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at  https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at  @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/  Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/group… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/santa-claus-the-movie-1985-christmas-bonus.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.